America's Next Top Model

America's Next Top Model (2003–) is an American reality television show created and hosted by Tyra Banks in which several young women (regularly called "girls" on the show) compete to win a modeling contract. Each "cycle" of the show constitutes roughly half of a regular U.S. TV season (9–14 episodes).

Tyra: [at the beginning of most episodes, referring to what happened in the previous week] Previously on America's Next Top Model...

Tyra: [at the beginning of most episodes, referring to the previous week's elimination] ...And she was sent home. Only [number] girls remain. Who will be eliminated tonight?

[Tyra sends a written message, called "Tyra mail", to the contestants before the elimination each week]

text from Tyra: Tomorrow you will meet with the judges, only [number] of you will continue on in the hopes of becoming America's Next Top Model. Love Tyra.

Tyra: [after deliberation at panel] We've reached a decision.

Tyra: [at each week's elimination session] I have [number] beautiful girls [or lovely ladies, etc.] standing before me, but I only have [number − 1 or so] photos [or photographs, pictures, etc.] in my hands; and these photos [or, etc.] represent the [number − 1 or so] of you that will still be in the running towards becoming America's Next Top Model.

Tyra: [at each week's elimination session] The first name that I am going to call is...[name].

Tyra: [to each contestant surviving elimination] Congratulations. You're still in the running to become America's Next Top Model.

Tyra: [at each week's elimination session after the first name or so is called] The next name that I am going to call is...[name].

Tyra: [when it gets down to few remaining contestants] Will [name], [sometimes one more [name] or so] and [name] please step forward. I have [number] beautiful ladies [young, golden hair, blonde or brunette] standing before me [or similar], but I have only one photo in my hand, and this photo represents the girl that will still be in the running towards becoming America's Next Top Model. I will only call one name, and the name that I do not call must immediately return to your loft [or apartment, hotel, house, etc.] here in [city or country], pack your belongings, and go home [or "leave this country" when on location].

J. Alexander: My motto is, walk like it's for sale and the rent is due tonight.

Elyse: [about Ebony] Her jaw was clenched. She didn't say a word to anybody—for once.

Elyse: [in the confessional] I do not have the will to walk on the catwalk like I give a damn! ... But I don't want to be model. I don't. I can't. It is so—augh! It's so irrelevant. Eliminate me. Do it!

Elyse: [reading from the Bible at the request of Robin] "Foolish is the man who says there is no God..."

Elyse: [in the confessional] Robin, how fucking dare you show me that "foolish is the atheist" Bible verse this morning, and ask me "what do i think of it?" What the fuck am I supposed to think of it? And you know what I think of you? Foolish is the woman who believes that goddamn tripe. Giselle, you fucking worthless cunt. You're so wasteful, bitchy, stupid—you're worthless. Your parents must be ashamed of you. Adrianne, stop interrupting me. Stop quoting Jay and Silent Bob right next to my ear. I've had enough of you. I don't want to hear the same stories over and over. Jay, you offended me today. I know medical school is hard work. How could I possibly not be aware of that? And secondly, how dare you imply that I'm uppity because I want to be a life saver and you don't? It takes a fucking ass to cover every seat, you shit slice. What else? Katie, I don't believe a word that comes out of your mouth. You're the most insincere person I've ever met. God damn it. Let me fucking die. You bitches.

Ebony: This is not a... sorority. I'm sorry, it is a model competition.

Giselle: Elyse, I love her, but her dream is to become a doctor. It's like, well, why are you here? That really, really pisses me off.

Katie: I love runway. It's like a whole different way to express yourself. Some girls don't have it naturally. I think that I've got a natural walk.

Jay Manuel: The make-up artist is your last front to the world, so you never want to piss them off, because they'll mess you up.

John Ward: [after photographing the contestants] I think if I was going to book a girl today based on where they are right now, I would probably pick Adrianne. She's very beautiful, she has a good time, I think she'd be fun to work with.

Jay: [referring to Robin] If you didn't want to be in the game, you might as well go home and just be Miss Soymilk, or whatever.

Tyra Banks: [to Ebony] You are beautiful, your smile is breathtaking, but you have anger that makes you push yourself too hard, to the point where you lose focus and become difficult to work with.

Elyse: [about her commercial] It was embarrassing. Can't wait to see that and laugh at it.

Adrianne: [about Ka, Ebony's girlfriend] I have so many gay friends, I don't care. She was really, really cool and she really loves her girlfriend.

Robin Manning: Ebony is a lesbian, and I found this offensive. I cannot pass judgment on her, but I just know that some people who claim to love the Lord and are Christian are not always, you know, cut the right way.

Elyse: Ebony-esque freak out...

Elyse: Everybody gets together and shakes their donk-donk for a prize. I don't think I'm going to participate in that.

Adrianne: I really missed my mom, and it kicks ass to have her here...a lot of ass!

Christine: [About Adrianne] I gave birth to such a beautiful human being.

Elyse: I'm not willing to alienate Giselle, because she's the only one with a straightening iron.

Adrianne: [About Elyse] She's killing herself. There's no other way to put it. This girl is killing herself.

Elyse: Robin, you're an idiot, and frankly, you're starting to act like a bitch too.

Adrianne: Giselle found out that pretending to be so negative about yourself and so insecure is a great way to fish for compliments.

Giselle: I need to build some freakin' confidence. How do I do that?

Elyse: You get out of puberty.

Janice: [About Kesse's photo] This looks like she escaped from a mental institution. This is the worst photograph I've ever seen! You look deranged! Your arms look amputeed [sic], your legs look amputeed [sic], and it looks like you have a penis! I'm sorry.

Adrianne: There was this man, who started brushing my leg like there was something on my knee, so I was thinking "Oh, there might be something on my knee." Then he proceeded to try to shove his hand up my skirt towards my crotch. I was very upset. I was right by the agency, but I just couldn't go in at all.

Jay: [About Robin] She opened up the drape, and she was just in a panty, no bra, and was like, shaking her boobs at me. What she didn't know was Tyra was standing right next to me, around the corner.

Tyra: [To Robin] I don't understand how you can say no to something like that, but then, in the dressing room, when you think no one is looking...I saw you open the dressing room at the couture house, and you were nude, and you shook your chest at Jay...You're shaking your chest, jiggle, shimmy, I saw them go round and round and up and down...

Beau: [To Shannon] Do you have any idea what it's like backstage at a fashion show?... Because you've got 30 girls that have to just strip completely naked.

Tyra: [To Elyse] I think you look so sexy, and your booty looks kind of big and juicy. That's great!

Adrianne: [About Robin] If there really is this big wonderful man in the sky, then he's gonna whup her ass when she gets up there.

Adrianne: [About Robin] I didn't want to listen to what that bitch had to say. She's psychotic.

Yoanna: Camille is the most exhausting experience I've ever encountered.

Yoanna: [To Camille] ...so negative in this house, the energy is driving me crazy! It's like we have to open the windows and... Wait! Just... I'm not finished! Just wait! Because you know why it's just so built up!

Xiomara: [About Camille] Her butt is taking up the whole counter space!

Catie: This is a once in a lifetime thing, I am not gonna care what they do to my hair.

Sara: I see a lot of unattractive models and a lot of girls that they put magazines, and I'm just like, 'Why the hell do they put these girls in this magazine?' But it's because it draws people to them.

Mercedes: [About Camille] Where the hell did the Cuban come from? I'm more Cuban than her, Honey, and I'm not even Latin!

Tasha Smith-Arquese: [To Camille] I just feel like you're still on the surface. There's stuff inside your heart that you just refuse to let out... You just want to have this perfect mask on. God bless you in your career, but you're just boring.

Mercedes: [About April] I love her but she's going to die of a heart attack before she hits 27 because she puts so much stress on the little things and doesn't listen to the positive things.

Janice: [About Catie] She looks like a child prostitute in this picture.

Xiomara: Of course I want to stay here, I don't want to go. I want to stay but if I'm not what someone wants, I'm cool with that. Like I'm not going to sit here and beat myself up because I'm not what someone wants.

Tyra: Your moms have that responsbility to keep you sane because this business is insane.

Janice: If a photographer offered you guaranteed fame if you slept with him for a cover of a magazine or a makeup campaign, what would you do?

April: Is he attractive?

Sara: [Betting Heather to run around the house naked] I dare you... I swear to God I'll give you $5 dollars if you do it.

Jenascia: You see how when I'm upset and can still be funny? You see how I do that? I'm fucking great!

Amanda: I'm legally blind. And I'm going to be about 30 when I go completely blind. It's a disease called retinitis pigmentosa, and I just wanted ya'll to know I will always see your face. Please don't cry, I've had 10 years to get used to this. I've seen my son smile and that's all I ever wanted.

Amanda: My child is so wonderful, he will blossom. It's like a rose growing through a concrete crack.

J. Alexander: [About Toccara's breasts] Baby when she released those puppies, they were full grown dogs.

Kelle: The past 3 panels, I've had probably the worst photos in the group. I've had a penis, I've been a deer in the headlights in the middle of a cemetery, I've been a platypus that's just came from a dentist...!

Toccara: I'm proud of myself. I'm the largest girl to get here and I made it this far. Someone has to start to break the barrier, so hopefully the next plus size girl that comes along, she makes it a little bit further. It's gonna take time, it doesn't happen over night. But I'm just grateful that maybe I made a path for someone else.

Tyra: Yaya, it was like you were on this pedestal and this hat smelt like dookie!

Tyra: [To Yaya] You want your outfit to be, 'Look at me' and this outfit is 'Look over there'.

Jessie, Yaya's sister: [On phone with Yaya, who is crying] Regardless of what people think about you, continue to bless people with your compassion and your wisdom. They have the blessing of being with you.

Norelle: [To Ann and Eva] Hopefully, one of us makes it to number one. And hopefully, it's us three!

Yaya: Don't exoticize me!

Norelle: Holy crap, Toccara. Your boobs are as big as my head.

Toccara: [About Amanda] Her eyes are too blue, and her hair is just...it's scary. I mean, I don't want to be around her at nighttime when she's walking down the hallway!

Ann: Taye Diggs wants me. [laughs]

Eva: Taye Diggs is so married.

Ann: He's married?

Eva: So married.

Ann: To who?

Eva: To his wife!

Tyra: Now 5 girls remain. Eva, the controversial diva. Ann, the All-American athlete. Yaya, the wordly Ivy League graduate. Amanda, the free-spirited mom who's going blind. And Norelle, the Orange County Cinderella. Don't miss out on the drama as we find out who will be America's Next Top Model!

Amanda: With my blindness I appreciate every sunrise, butterfly, the dew drop on a petal.

Norelle: Eva had said that she hoped I did bad so I would go home and then Eva was like, "Oh yeah? Ann, well you think Norelle's ugly and fat!"

Tyra: Well, Norelle, you're one of the top 5. And you have to realize that's what makes beauty interesting, is when it's debatable. Do you know what I mean? There's so many people that say, 'Oh Tyra Banks is beautiful.' And there's so many people that say, 'Tyra Banks has a big ass forehead and I think shes ugly!' One thing you need to realize is everybody talks about everybody.

Eva: I think Ann knows I've been nothing but a friend to her. So for her to bring that situation on the table, without trying to understand me or try to clear it up, is like 'Woah. That's...you very whack right now homie. Like, you are so whack'.

Norelle: I was so confused. Pink Positive, what's going on? Are we getting a divorce?

Amanda: When the lionesses are hunting in a pack, when there's a flaw, you see it. And everybody goes for it.

Amanda: Yaya has won like, 5 times? More power to her, 'cause I'm sharing in the fruits of her labor.

Norelle: Oh my god! I don't understand Japanese food. I do not eat Japanese food. If I do, I eat like... Panda Express?

Norelle: [about a Japanese tea ceremony] Uhh! There is so much detail. You think have tea is going to your friend's house, have time for tea? Woo... It's not. It's so hard.

Amanda: I feel like a lot of people in the house don't necessarily want to be around Eva. The house has to have a target. That's just mob mentality and human nature and competition.

Tyra: [yelling at contestant who has just been eliminated] Be quiet! Tyra: [later in same scene] Do you want to be in the running or not?! Tyra: [later in same scene] Take responsibilities of yourself !!

Kim: The person who would most likely get along with the Wild Boyz is disgusting, crazy: Lisa.

Nik: I just kept seeing everyone laugh, and I knew they weren't laughing at me, cause whatever I was doing wasn't that funny.

Lisa: [to the Wild Boyz, upon entering in a diaper] I'm wearing you guy's underwear!

Steve-O: Why?

Lisa: Why not?

Bre: Why is she wearing a diaper again?

Jayla: I don't know.

Bre: Oh, just thought I'd ask.

Lisa: We have to see if they work!

Bre: Lisa don't pee in it! [in confessional, referring to Lisa] Then Lisa announces that she's going to pee in a diaper. No woman of class, especially a supermodel in the making, is going to do something as disgusting as pee on herself at her job!

Nicole: [referring to Lisa] I feel disgusted!

Bre: Lisa, she's a sick individual, and if she wins this competition I hope she uses that $100,000 and checks herself into a psych ward, ASAP.

Lisa: [in the confessional] Everybody's looking at me like I'm crazy... Everybody's taking themselves way too serious... Everybody just needs to calm down. Calm down! Take a break. [takes out a jar of cookies] Eat a cookie!

Tyra: [to Jayla and Nicole] Well Jayla and Nicole, please step forward. You two are exclusively, beautiful girls. You take beautiful pictures, but when you open your mouths, they [referring to the judges] say, that there is no way that they can represents a product. You both are the top of the pack, but now you both stand before me, as a bottom. With modeling, you guys must be on point, you guys must be fierce, you guys must be ready. But the judges were so disappointed in you that tonight both of you must pack your bags... [pauses] Because we're all going to London!

(prior to makeovers, Tyra is telling each girl what they're going to get) Tyra: Brooke, when we look at you, we think Victoria's Secret, we think high fashion, so you know who's hair you're gonna get? Miss J. Alexander: Mine. (everyone starts laughing)

Tyra: Jade you are standing right in front of me because you have a lot of excuses, that you don't take responsibility for your actions.

Jade: Long hair, baby! Furonda is really feeling this hair, now that is a true Miss Diva.

Sara: [About Jade] I think the Peroxide's are starting to mess with her head.

Jade: This is a competition! This is not America's-Next-Top-Best-Friend!I wanna be America's Next Top Model, because I feel that I have everything that it takes to be that. Broke ass crown don't even got diamonds.

Wendy: You need to not take your attitude out on other people!

Jade: Goodbye, J-Lo! Goodbye, J-Lo!

Jade: I'm not worried about Furonda right now because she did really bad.

...

J. Alexander: Furonda really impressed me. She did much better than last time!

Furonda: The questions game is where you would ask a question, and the person would ask a question back.

Nick: A TV and a remote.

Brooke: Why do you keep change me all the time?

Joanie: Why is your antennae all crooked?

Nick: A job interview.

Jade: I'm sorry you don't have the right qualifications. [A negative buzzer rings and a big red x appears on screen saying Not a Question]

Nick: See, you gotta ask a question.

Jade: See, this is confusing.

Joanie: Jade, she just sucks at all of the stuff that we do.

Nick: Start with who, what, when, where and why. If you start with one of those, you're gonna be good.

Jade: Alright, man.

Nick: I'ma give one where you can figure it out. A rich man and a poor man.

Jade: My dick is bigger than yours.[Another negative buzzer rings and a big red x appears on screen saying Definitely Not a Question]

Joanie: You totally just lost!

Jade: You know, even though it was fun, laughter and jokes, that was humor to me. I was like what? [affirmative buzzer rings with a green checkmark, saying "question"]] What? [Buzzer rings again] What? [buzzer rings again]

Danielle: [Rapping] Roses are red, violets are blue, i'm a win the title, and you look like boo-boo.

Nnenna: [Rapping] You are a model, I knew that (laughs). But you could at least? Learn how to talk!

J. Alexander: I love one of the twins, I just can't remember which one it is.

Tyra: [about Melrose's attitude during the shoot] I'm just so disappointed in her performance on the set. And to be talking back to Mr. Jay and flipping out and blaming this and blaming that. It's like, "Honey, this is the first week. You could be cut like that." If you're a bitch...hide it.

Eugena: [After a 30 second shopping spree race, where only one constant walks away with everything] We were all in the back laughing, because Melrose grabs everything. Because Melrose understood the rules, but the other girls didn't.

Ann Ward: [to camera and in voice-over] My confidence is just really high right now—being able to go from not being sure about myself to getting top photo four times in a row. So, you know, I actually do feel like, uh, I'm a model, and I'm not just the gangly girl that sits in the back of class. So, I really do feel pretty now. So, I'm really happy here.

Patrick Demarchelier: [looking at a picture he just took of Tyra on a monitor] Who's this girl? I think she's going to win this. She's going to win the Next Top Model.

Tyra Banks: Thank you! [points to photo] I hear she's the bitch in the house. [laughs]

Tyra: [critiquing a good photo of Ann] Ann, walking down the street in person: perhaps one of the most awkward photo shoots, in person, I've ever seen in my life. And then I look at the film, and it's shot after shot like this. I don't get it.

Tyra: [at elimination] Best cumulative photos this week—Ann. [facetiously] Ann, you're making this so not interesting!

Liz Williams: [on losing best picture the previous week] I was so upset that I didn't win it, 'cause I was so friggin' close. It just brought me down. And then I said, "Hmm—alcohol!"

Tyra Banks: [to Nigel Barker and other panelists before judging] I never told you this, but the first time I met you in person, and I was like, [mouth agape] "I'm gonna shoot with this fine-ass man?" And I was like, "I'm gonna be naked?" Augh! And he was like, [adopts British accent] "All right, Tyra, stand right there." And I was like, [cradles breasts] "OK, baby!" [laughs] And now he's like, Nigel, my friend.

[the competitors must shoot a TV commercial for the fictional product H2T water, the opening line of which is: "Looking good on the outside starts with feeling good on the inside." The commercial includes a list of ingredients including acai berry, guarana, and chromium.]

Kayla Ferrel: Looking good on the inside starts with feelingggg— [long pause] great on the outside? Hold on. [thinks] Ok, can I start over?

Kayla: [in her "best take" shown at judging] Looking good on the inside starts with feeling good on the outside. With seven ingredients including asabi [phonetic transcription] berry, gorona [phon.], and chron—and— [shrugs] grabana [phon.]. And when you feel beautiful on the outside, you always feel beautiful on the inside. H2T: feel beautiful inside and out.

Nigel Barker: [mocking Kayla's performance] This water has an iguana in it, and Corona in it, and it has some Asahi berries.

Liz Williams: [to camera] When I hear "Milan", I think Mulan—like, the movie? So, I'm thinkin' Japan, dragons—you know, I don't even know where my mind was at. But, of course, I always looked at Chelsea, 'cause if Chelsea's freakin' out, it must be something big.

Tyra Banks: I like this picture of you, Chris, in the wide. It has a—a sexuality that borders on a slight hoochie, but you didn't get off on the hoochie stop. You've stayed on the train.

Tyra: [pretending that this season's contestants have been eliminated] So, unfortunately, you guys have to go home now. But you don't have to go far. [pushes button to reveal this season's "model house"]Because you're home!

Dominique Waldrup: Today we were inside of this big-ass bubble, lookin' like a fuckin' gerbil.

André Leon Talley: [to Tyra, referring to contesant Molly O'Connell's choice of wardrobe for the first judging] Would you go to your first go-see with your midriff showing like that?

Tyra: I wouldn't go to my last go-see with my midriff— [trails off amidst laughter]

[after contestant Ondrei Edwards has voluntarily quit the competition during the judging session, the judges have just finished deliberating over who will be formally eliminated, her or another contestant]

Sara Longoria: [on feeling less attractive than the other contestants after getting made over with "manly short brown spikes"] I feel like dirty Sméagol in the corner, like, trying not to be jealous.

[Note: "panel" is the judging session after which someone is eliminated]

Sara: [to camera] I am always nervous about panel. I shake like a little housebroken Chihuahua.

Tyra Banks: [on the need to upstage the other girl in a two-model shot] So many models that when they get to a certain level, they're like, "I don't do doubles. I don't do doubles." I never said no to a double; I just said, "Back up, bitch."

André Leon Talley: [praising the swan-like neck extension of the models in a photo] And both Kasia and Molly have taken us to the level of swandom!